Lighting apparatus



L. A. NEVIERE' LIMITING APPARATUS Filed Jun. 20, 1922 Patented Dec. 8, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE- LOUIS AUGUST! NEVIEBE, OF AR'IANNEB, FRANCE.

LIGHTING APPARATUS.

Application filed June 20,1922. Serial No. 569,631.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS Auousrn Nnvrimn, citizen of the French Republic, residing at Artannes, Department of Indre et Loire, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lighting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automatic lighting ap aratuses, andit concerns more particular y (because it is in their case that its application seems to be most advantageous) but not exclusively, amongst these apparatuses, the automatic lighters.

It has for its purpose, chiefly, to render the apparatuses of this kind such that they have a better working, a greater commodiousness in use, and a more easy mounting and dismantling.

It consists, principally, in constituting the apparatuses of the kind referred to by such a system of intermeshing parts comprising, as known, an easil ignitible bod (for instance a wick soake with gasoline) and a device (for instance a serrated roller rubbing against a ferro-cerium stone) intended to produce the ignition of this body, and in providing said parts with means which are such that these arts may slide relatively to each other, an that thus, with predetermined directions of sliding, are caused the ignition of said body and the uncovering of a s stem of aperture allow ing the flame of said body to appear.

It consists, besides this main disposition, of certain other dispositions which are utilized, preferably, in the same time, and.

will be more explicitly set forth hereinafter.

It has more particularly in view a cer-.

tain mode of application (that wherein it is applied to automatic lighters comprising a serrated roller, a ferro-cerium stone and a wick soaked with any suitable carburetting l1 uid) and certain modes of realization (t ose which will be indicated hereinafter) of said disposition; and it has still more particularl in view, and that while considening =t em as new articles of manufacture, the apparatuses of the kind above mentioned em odying the application of these same dispositions, as well as the special elements suited to the manufacture of such apparatuses.

And it will may, in every manner be fully understood byreference to the 0 owing to one of the modes of realization of the invention; this lighter being drawn as being into its inoperative position.

Figures 2 and 3 show,-respectively, the former in perspective view (partially broken away), the latter in elevation, two constitutive elements of another automatic lighter designed according to another mode,

of realization ofthe invention.

fFi-gures 4 and 5 show, both in elevation (partially broken away) this latter lighter, when mounted, Figure 4 illustrating it in its inoperative position, and Figure 5 in its operative position, and

Figure 6 shows, in section upon line 66 of Figure 4, this latter lights According to the invention, and more specially according to that of its modes of application and to those of the modes of realization of its several parts to which it seems that the preference ought to be granted assuming that must be manufacture for instance, an automatic lighter of the kind of those comprising a gasolinecontainer at having, dipped therein, a wickand a tube a carrying a ferro-cerium stone and a serrated roller (Z, it is proceeded in the following, or in an analo ous manner.

'It is resorted, for constituting'the lighter to be manufactured: to said container a which is constituted by a recipient, preferably flat, the side-walls of which are exances- (roller and wick) of the container and connected with each other, in the case of the arrangement shown in Figure 1, by a solid part a overlapping entirely the face of the container comprising said appliances, and leaving, between it and said face a suitable interval a on the side of the w1ok-which solid part is advantageously removabletended. on the side of the accessory appliand, in the case of the arrangement shown in Figures 2 to 6, by a fixed solid part a leaving, in turn, said appliances exposed and visible through an aperture 'a. and placed on the 'other side of the wick relatively to the roller, which side-walls may, in the case of the second arrangement, be extended, moreover, be-

yond the end-face of the container corresponding to the solid art a the whole being such that it may e introduced, the wick preceding the roller, and slide into a corres ending y shaped sheath e suitably guide therein by its periphery; to, said sheath 0 having a ottom e 1n which sheath is lzprovided an aperture 6"; the solid part a i 'ure 1) and the corresponding end-face the container a (Figures 2 to 6.) serving as a rest to a spring-system f-bearing, on the other hand, upon the bottom e 0 sheath, which spring-system is constituted in a suitable maner, for instance, by a coiligures 4 and 5) arched and applied each other at their backs.

' airing (Figure 1) or by elastic bands against It is resorted to means such that, by cause ing the container a and the sheath e to.

slide towards each other the ignition of the wick b is obtained, which means are advantageously constituted; on one'hand, by forming, with the roller 05 and a system of pinion 'g, a whole capable of rotating around the axis d of said roller, and, on the other hand, by rendering integral with the sheath a system of rack h intended to come and remain into engagement with the system of pinion g; the said two systems being dis.-

osed relatively to each other, so that, during the sliding movement above referred to, the roller rotates in the direction in which the sparks, which it produces by rubbing against the ferro-cerium stone, secure 'the igniting of the wick. It will be seen that the system of rack h is, for the said position shown in Figure 1, parallel to the roller- I holding tube 0, and, in the arrangement shown in Figures 2 to 6, perpendicular to said tube. a

And provisions are made: in order that, the apparatus being mounted and assumed to be in its inoperative positiona position into which the system of spring 7 tends to withdraw the container ,0, from the sheath e, but wherefrom said container cannot exit owing to a suitable retaining means, for instance to a spring a provided with claws of the kind of those shown in Figures 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, which claws will be spread apart for dismantling said apparatus-the compartment, into which the wick is located, be closed, which condition, at the same time that the container is given a suitable form, is realized, for the disposition shown in Figure l, by providing the lateral aperture e of the sheath beyond the solid part a and, for the disposition shown in Figures 2 to 6, by giving to the solid part a 'such a location that this solid wall covers completely the lateral aperture e of the sheath; and, in order that, when the apparatus must be utilized the container a and the sheath 6, sliding toward each other against the action of the system of antagonistic spring f, cause the the lateral apertures a" and e to register with each other, and that, in such a manner that the wick, assumed to be ignited, may project its flame through this system of a ertures, the whole .coming back'into posit1on by the action-of the system of spring f as soon as it has ceased to act upon the apparatus-the sliding motion, in the operative irection, of the moving parts being easily obtained by hand by acting simultaneously upon the bottom (2 of the sheath e and upon-the opposite end of the container a, which end is seen-in Figured, into a system of notch 6 provided in the sheath with such dimensions that it be possible to easily thrust b .the required length said container into sai sheath. Y

It results therefrom that an automatic lighter is obtained which, as it will be readily understood after the receding explanations, fulfils satisfactorily the purpose hereinbefore aimed to.

Particularly, it may be 0 erated with one hand only; the duration o the friction of the roller upon the stone can be longer than in the actual lighters and the ignition of its wick is, consequently, better secured, and that even'in windy weather-holes suitably provided, for instance holes e around the aperture e and holes a around the aperture a, being intended to facilitate the draughtthis ignition being, besides, facilitated, when the lighter has to be used at relatively short intervals, owing to the fact that the walls of said lighter keep, in this case, a certain amount of heat. I As it is obvious and has been, besides already suggested, the invention is in no manner restricted to that of its modes of application, nor to those of the modes of realization of its various parts, having been more specially indicated herein above; it embraces, on the contrary, all the modifications thereof, namely those in which the system of rack h, instead of being located, relatively to the system of pinion g, as shown in Figures 4, 5 and 6, would be placed on the opposite side; in this case, the roller and the wick should be arranged in order reverse to the, preceding one,

and, for obtaining the working of the lighter, the sheath e ought to slide upon the container (1 rendered stationary; this arrangement enabling to give the apparatus a lesser length; those in which the part which must slide relatively to the sheath 6, instead of being constituted by a single part, as it has been assumed hereinabove, would be constituted: on'one hand, by the container proper, and, on the other hand, by a kind of box into which this container would be engaged and which might slide, being guided, at its periphery, into said sheath; those in which it would be resorted to means such that the'working of the lighter, instead movement, the needless wear of the ferro-' cerium stone.

Claims:

1. An automatic lighting device comprising a two-part telescopic casing, each part having a cut-away portion at one edge adapted to provide aligned apertures when said two parts are moved one into the other, said apertures being separated when said two parts are separated, a wick located in one of said parts and ignition means for said wick adapted to be operated by the relative movements of said two parts when one of said two parts is moved into the other, the said two parts of said casing having additional openings below said wick and adapted to be aligned when the said apertures are aligned.

2. A device according to claim 1 in which the said wick is substantially perpendicular to said apertures and openings.

3. An automatic lighting device comprising an outer casing member, and an inner casing member telescopically mounted in said outer casing member, each said casing member having an aperture, said apertures being adapted to coincide when the inner casing member is pushed into the outer casing member, a wick located in one of said casing members, and ignition means for said wick adapted to be operated by the relative movement of said casing members when said inner casing member is moved into outer casing member, said casing members respectively having openings adapted to be aligned when said inner casing member is moved into said outer casing member, a spring adapted to force said inner casing member out of said outer casing member, and a stop connected to said outer casing member and adapted to retain said inner casing member Within said outer casing member and in a position in which said inner casing member is forced against said stop by said spring.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afllx my signature.

Louis AUGUSTEYNEVIER-E. 

